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TRYING IT AGAIN.
Do you not think Columbus must have felt very fine as he sailed out of Cadiz Harbor on his second voyage to the West?
It was just about a year before, you know, that his feeble fleet of three little ships sailed from Palos port.

His hundred sailors hated to go; his friends were few; everybody else said he was crazy; his success was very doubtful.

Now, as he stood on the high quarter-deck of his big flag-ship, the Maria Galante, he was a great man.

By appointment of his king and queen he was "Admiral of the Ocean Seas" and "Viceroy of the Indies." He had servants, to do as he directed; he had supreme command over the seventeen ships of his fleet, large and small; fifteen hundred men joyfully crowded his decks, while thousands left at home wished that they might go with him, too.